Kiarash Anvari

After finding out that he has no sperm and can't impregnate his wife, an Iranian man suffers an existential crisis.

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At four o'clock early in the morning a strange voice talks on an answering machine and announces a surprise, a cardboard box is at the front door, "filled with voices and pictures of another time and place". This time is November 1977, two years before the revolution in Iran. The experimental short film in Beckett style jumps from one time zone to another.

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Omid, a teenage athlete who is barred for bureaucratic reasons from a swimming competition; however, as his estranged father has made his consent to a divorce from his mother conditional on Omid's performance in the competition, he begins to train in open-water swimming under the coaching of Mani, with their increasingly close friendship leading to community rumours and allegations they are engaging in a gay sexual relationship with each other.

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A Brechtian sketch of a relationship between a man and a woman in modern Iran, and also a parody of (or homage to) early Godard films.

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